TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blundell, Richard
AU  - Gosling, Amanda
AU  - Ichimura, Hidehiko
AU  - Meghir, Costas
        TI  - Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds
        PY  - 2004/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1350
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1350
        AB  - This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the
impact of non-random selection into work. We show that bounds constructed without any
economic or statistical assumptions can be informative. However, since employment rates in
the UK are often low they are not informative about changes in educational or gender wage
differentials. Thus we explore ways to tighten these bounds using restrictions motivated from
economic theory. With these assumptions we find convincing evidence of an increase in
inequality within education groups, changes in the “return” to education and increases in the
relative wages of women.
        KW  - wage differentials
KW  - selection models
KW  - bounds
        ER  -